Clinical Social Worker

4 days ago


Durham, North Carolina, United States Duke University Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Social Worker to join our team at Duke Primary Care. As a Clinical Social Worker, you will provide psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment to patients and families, as well as discharge planning and consultation to assist them in coping with their hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and/or life situation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide comprehensive psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
  • Formulate, develop, and implement a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions.
  • Screen, identify, diagnose, treat, and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
  • Provide training to healthcare professionals in the same.
  • May perform these functions independently or as part of a team.
  • Assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management, and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, rape, etc.
  • Provide consultative services to healthcare team members within the scope of care definitions as needed.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact on patient care, e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse.
  • Provide education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
  • Participate in multi-disciplinary healthcare teams and provide leadership in representing clinical social work perspective/liaison with patient and family.
  • Provide teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
  • Contribute to the academic mission of the medical center and health system by participating in academic activities such as committees, conferences, publications, teaching, and research.
  • Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.
  • Arrange, procure, and coordinate patient/family pre and post hospital needs.
  • Knowledge of hospital, medical center, and/or health system resources to access and provide for patient care needs.
  • Document assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital, and/or health system guidelines and standards.
  • Maintain records and statistics in accordance with department, hospital, medical center, and/or health system policies.
  • Attend and participate in staff, committee, department, and other administrative meetings.
  • Participate in department, hospital, medical center, and/or health system continuous quality improvement initiatives.
  • Participate in regular supervisory conferences; keep current with social work and healthcare developments and seek to increase further enhancement of job-related knowledge.
Requirements
  • Master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work.
  • Current licensure as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) by the NC Social Work Certification and Licensure Board.
  • Two years of post-internship social work experience in a healthcare setting or social service agency.
  • Two years of recent post-master's experience in a clinical setting preferred.
  • Experience in leadership and supervising.
Work Environment

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes.



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